![]() Just when you think there’s nothing more that can be said about whales, Giggs offers a fresh perspective, a twist. Giggs goes on to reflect how whales are a measure of the condition of our seas are a significant part of cultural heritage, of folklore, history, and of economies. We struggle to understand the sprawl of our impact, but there it is, within one cavernous stomach: pollution, climate, animal welfare, wildness, commerce, the future, and the past. ![]() Rebecca Giggs writes of a whale found with an entire greenhouse and its paraphernalia in its stomach – ![]() The subtitle of Fathoms – ‘The world in the whale’ is both literal and metaphoric. ![]() This review could be as big as a blue whale or as small as a krill, because I have so much to say about Fathoms, and it’s almost too much – like any book I loved, it’s impossible to know where to start and my inclination is to simply say ‘just read it’. ![]()
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